Nov w3 2025

Very good progress this week. Two new gloves printed this week, which we tested. Didn’t to do the vacuum chamber testing that we were hoping to do (learned more about the gloves case that needs tweaking from what works well with stockings), but everything is in place to handle that early next week. While processing those gloves, we tested out some new depowdering techniques, including ultrasonics. So far it doesn’t look like it will work for us, but I want to give it a bit more of an investigation, because it would simplify a lot for us if it worked (and some people with industry knowledge have had good experiences with it). Lot more updates on the software side where we were doing a lot of integrated testing of the scan metrics processing product. Made some great updates which we plan to roll into an update to the centerline calculation early next week. Also moved to a new top-of-scan marker, a much more elegant hardware solution to what was a very ugly software problem - always great to solve things in atom space rather than in bit space. On the topic of atoms, we also chatted with a very advanced SLM printer manufacturer, and learned that it would actually be possible to print full metal chainmesh. Would require some heavy optimizations to their slicer, but they have proved that they printed a heap of chainmail before.